Medical Term

The root word is

• the essential meaning of the term

• the ending of the word

• the beginning of the word

• the combing vowel

The suffix is

When reading a medical term you start with

• the suffix

• the root word

• the prefix

• at the beginning

The meaning of this/these words is blood

• hem/o

• hemat/o

• arthr/o

• oste/o

• cardi/o

The meaning of nephr/o

• kidney

• liver

• nerve

• bone

hardening

• -tocia

• -phoresis

• -sclerosis

• -rrhexis

rupture, profuse flow

• -plegia

• -paresis

• -rrhagia

• -lysis

meg/o

• again

• around

• one

• large

removal or excision

• -ectomy

• -emesis

• -centesis

• -clasis

What does "Carcin" mean?

• Cell

• Children

• Head

• Cancer